Aspalathus pigmentosa R.Dahlgren

Branches decumbent-ascending, sparsely ramified, 0.1-0.25 m long, slender, commonly dark reddish, sparsely tomentose. Leaflets filiform, (3-)6-13 mm long, 0.2-0.4 mm thick, often slightly incurved, weak, flexible, acute-acuminate, with sparse, spreading, long hairs from ± distinct hair base tubercles. Heads subglobose, with 5-15 flowers. Bracts mainly trifoliolate (central ones unifoliolate), on a basal stalk up to 1.5 mm long; leaflets slender, linear-filiform, (6.5-)9-14 mm long, similar to leaflets of vegetative leaves, green or frequently purplish. Pedicel less than 1 mm long, sericeous. Bracteoles similar to each of the bract leaflets, (5.8-)8.5-12.5 mm long. Calyx tube woolly-sericeous; lobes linear-filiform, (5.5-)7-9.5 (-10.5) mm long, narrow, flexible, acuminate, purplish violet, with long, spreading hairs from ± distinct hair base tubercles. Petals pale or light yellow (standard sometimes purplish). Standard blade obovate, (5.2-)6.5-8(-12.5) x (5-)6.5-8.5 mm, without or with very short cusp, tomentose on the back, glabrous on the front. Wing blades narrowly elliptic, (3.3-)4.2-5 x (1.2-)2-2.5 mm. Keel blades lunate, (4.6-)5.5-6.5 x (2.7-)3.5-4 mm, sparsely sericeous on most parts; upper margin very slightly S-curved. Wing and keel claws 2.7-4 mm long, basally adnate to the staminal sheath. Pistil: ovary tomentose; style base pubescent on upper side of basal half. Pod narrowly ovate, ±6.5-8 x 2.5-3 mm, smooth, tomentose-woolly on most parts (glabrous on the base).